Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

The National Gallery's collection of seventeenth-century Flemish paintings, although numbering fewer than sixty works, is exceptional in quality. At its core are major examples by the two greatest masters of the period, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, artists whose renown extended to Italy, Spain, Germany, France, and England. The large-scale history paintings and the portraits that Rubens and Van Dyck painted of their aristocratic patrons...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894683489
• ISBN13: 9780894683480
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 4.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.8" x 11.3"